Recommended Reading

The following books, all read by at least one member of the YCC,  are recommended to all members and Conservatives.  Click on the book to link to the corresponding Amazon page.  Go to the Contact page or tell a club leader if you are interested in borrowing a copy of any book.

Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto

Mark R. Levin

 

We have 7 copies for YCC members to read

 

"This is a superbly useful book. It is the perfect companion for the college freshman to fortify the student against what he or she is about to hear. It is an ideal detoxicant for the graduating senior. Most vitally, it should be read by those who do not consider themselves conservatives, because it carefully lays out the central historic, philosophic and constitutional relationship between conservative principles and our individual freedom."-- Tony Blankley, The Washington Times

 

"The necessary book of the Obama era."-- Jeffrey Lord, The American Spectator

 

"This is quite simply the most important book of our times."-- Scott Miller, The Conservative Post

 

Free to Choose: A Personal Statement

Milton Friedman and Rose Friedman

 

We have 1 copy for YCC members to read

 

"Milton Friedman brings verities back into focus and puts us back in touch with how a free and abundant society can work- if we let it.  That is why he deserved his Nobel Prize in economics, and it is why you should read this book."-- Reader's Digest

 

"Powerful."-- The Christian Science Monitor

 

 

Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist's Guide to Global Warming

Bjorn Lomborg

 

We have 1 copy for YCC members to read

 

"Bjorn Lomborg's rational and compassionate suggestions would save more lives, preserve more wilderness, and have a better chance of eventually halting man-made global warming than hysterical catastrophism, global treaties, and high-minded energy rationing.  Read this ingenious book."-- Matt Ridley, the author of The Origins of Virtue

 

"Brilliant!  A devastating critique of the prevailing climate change hysteria.  This book provides an overwhelming case for reassessing where exactly our policy priorities should lie if we are genuinely concerned with world welfare rather than with making noble- if futile- gestures that, at best, make us feel good but actually do a lot of harm."-- Wilfred Beckerman, professor emeritus of economics, Oxford University

How Capitalism Saved America

Thomas J. DiLorenzo

 

We have 1 copy for YCC members to read

 

"Should be required reading in every course on American history."-- George Reisman, professor of economics, Pepperdine University

 

"Provides a great service by reminding everyone of how integral free markets have been to our liberty and advancement."-- Bernard Chapin

 

"Argues provocatively that FDR's policies made the Depression worse in the 1930's."-- Larry Kudlow, CNBC's Kudlow and Cramer